Besides it being impossible to implement, the 6-month pause would do nothing but give a 6 month competitive advantage to OpenAI over everybody else. They could sell the model access model to companies without having any competitors on the market.
The whole "pause AI or it will destroy the world thing" is just a large pot of hype anyways, pushed by journalists lacking the understanding of technology, twitter-bros who are building "AI copywriters" and "profile photo generators" and owners of "AI" companies.
While AGI is still quite far away, it's common to see people included in the process claiming "it's showing signs of general intelligence", "it's becoming self-aware" etc. Hell, they got a horse in the race and that horse can earn them billions of dollars - of course they would claim it's insanely advanced. And the journalists just regurgitate the claims because it generates clicks.
If Sam comes out tomorrow and says "he is afraid of GPT4", tens of thousands of clickbait articles about it will come out, together with rebuttals and opinion pieces. Millions of dollars worth of ads will be sold via those articles. The value of OpenAI will increase in public's eyes and more corporations will be interested in including GPT in their products, thinking it's going to revolutionise their line of business.
And of course, we have the VC's investing in "AI" products, hyping it up even more - wouldn't you do the same if you had few hundred million invested in 50 different companies and each tweet/article could increase the potential of them raising more money?
The whole "pause AI or it will destroy the world thing" is just a large pot of hype anyways, pushed by journalists lacking the understanding of technology, twitter-bros who are building "AI copywriters" and "profile photo generators" and owners of "AI" companies.
While AGI is still quite far away, it's common to see people included in the process claiming "it's showing signs of general intelligence", "it's becoming self-aware" etc. Hell, they got a horse in the race and that horse can earn them billions of dollars - of course they would claim it's insanely advanced. And the journalists just regurgitate the claims because it generates clicks.
If Sam comes out tomorrow and says "he is afraid of GPT4", tens of thousands of clickbait articles about it will come out, together with rebuttals and opinion pieces. Millions of dollars worth of ads will be sold via those articles. The value of OpenAI will increase in public's eyes and more corporations will be interested in including GPT in their products, thinking it's going to revolutionise their line of business.
And of course, we have the VC's investing in "AI" products, hyping it up even more - wouldn't you do the same if you had few hundred million invested in 50 different companies and each tweet/article could increase the potential of them raising more money?